PPW_1_fcV3_Layout 1 02/05/2014 10:50 Page 1 PACKPRINT WORLD PACKPRINTWORLD.COM SPRING 2014 A HIDDEN GEM IN THE QUALITY PRINT MARKET S P R Gravure is an established technique with a quality image I N G 2 second to none - so why has it fallen out of favor? 0 1 4 + THE EVOLUTION OF PACKAGING MATERIALS DEVELOPMENTS IN INKS AND COATINGS MANAGING A DIGITAL PRINTING OPERATION SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH-QUALITY SHORT TO MEDIUM RUN PRINTED PACKAGING Game changer Combining high-quality color with the efficiency of digital printing, HP Indigo will take your business to the next level. Engineered for mid-web packaging applications such as flexible packaging and label printing, the HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press is a superior alternative to analog technology. It brings the same quality as gravure to your operation so you can meet all your client demands for medium and short runs, whilst minimizing your operational costs. Grow your business with the HP Indigo 20000 Find out more at hp.com/go/hpindigo20000 © 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 4 | Contents CONTENTS Editorial [email protected] Andy Thomas Group Managing Editor David Pittman Group News Editor Nick Coombes Consultant Editor Mike Fairley International Publishing Director Danielle Jerschefske North America Editor James Quirk Latin America Editor Kevin Liu China Editor Carol Houghton Editorial Assistant Advertising [email protected] 10 Tim Gordon Publishing Director Joerg Singer Advertising Manager – PPW Randy Kessler Advertising Manager – North America Richard Quirk Account Executive – EMEA Pradeep Saroha Account Executive – India 26 Jerry Lee Account Executive – China 14 Tina Wang Account Executive – China Subscriptions [email protected] Production [email protected] James Wenman Design and Production Manager Marketing & Circulation [email protected] Michael Hatton Marketing Director FEATURES Management 4 News 21 Making a case for Roger Pellow Labels and Packprint Group Chairman Lisa Milburn Managing Director Consolidation in the market – Digital stone packaging Tasha Ventimiglia Event Director market activity – worldwide installations Stone Age Packaging is targeting the plastic and synthetic paper markets with Publishers 10 Managing a digital printing material made from stone operation Tarsus Exhibitions & Publishing Ltd, Metro Building, 1 Butterwick, Hammersmith, London Mike Fairley looks at what converters 23 Narrow web flexo in China W6 8DL, UK need to do to successfully implement, Kevin Liu takes the temperature with two T: +44 (0)208 846 2700 run, and manage a digital printing leading flexo press suppliers operating ISSN 1478-7520 operation in China 14 The evolution of materials 24 GMI sets global US office Material manufacturers across the growth ambitions Tarsus Exhibitions and Publishing Ltd,16985 board are working hard to advance their West Bluemound Road, Suite 210, Brookfield, David Pittman speaks to Graphic offering WI 53005, USA Measures International president Tim T: +1 262 782 1900 Curtin and asks about its recent growth 16 Box company’s big dreams and where this might lead China office Canadian packaging company Great Little Box Company is investing in the 26 Giving a hand to Tarsus Publishing Inc, Room 1108, Floor 11, 1 future after a decade of evolution Hongqiao Road Xu Hui, Shanghai, China material handling T: +86 21 64484890 | F: +86 21 64484880 18 Independent carton longevity Material handling equipment has a key role to play in efficient and safe Zumbiel Packaging competes on converting operations Printers independence and flexibility in the US Advent Colour, Andover, Hants folding carton market, writes Danielle 28 More than just ink on paper © Tarsus Exhibitions and Publishing Ltd Jerschefske All material published by Package Print Worldwide is copyright and remains the Suppliers directly involved in and property of the publishers. No material may be reproduced without the written working with inks and coatings tell David permission of the publishers. The publishers do not necessarily agree with the views expressed by contributors, nor do they accept any responsibility for any Pittman what the future holds for a errors of interpretation in the subject matter of this publication. fundamental component in the package printing process packprintworld.com Editor's Letter | 5 COMMENT A positive mood 38 surrounds the package printing industry in 2014. The technology is advancing to meet the increasing need for short runs and quicker turnaround times. Take Goss International and the work it has been doing on its Sunday Vpak press series, or the interest DG press MachineS is generating around its Thallo concept. That’s without even mentioning the developments in digital that continue at pace. HP Indigo’s 20000 and 30000 presses, suitable for flexible packaging and folding carton respectively, are now entering the market - as 45 will, we are told, Benny Landa’s first Nanographic printing presses, with the folding carton variant to be the first off the line. Converters are taking the opportunity of an upturn in developed markets to make healthy investments in this new technology. Package printing is also becoming a central theme in many corporate growth strategies. KBA, for example, has made a number of strategic acquisitions in this area, including Flexotecnica, while Constantia Flexibles has detailed how its acquisition program helped achieve a 29 percent 30 year-on-year growth in sales. Mergers and acquisitions have been a big talking point. Is continued consolidation in the market a good or a bad thing, and what impact will it have in terms of competition and market 30 Goss goes marching on 38 A hidden gem in the dynamics? Goss International has continued its quality print market All the positivity certainly makes for an growth into the labels and packaging Nick Coomes looks at gravure, an extremely interesting working environment and markets with a number of strategic established technique that has a quality one that is interesting to report on, and hopefully developments image that is second to none but has just as interesting to read. Long may it continue strangely fallen out of favor through 2014 and beyond. 33 Cosmo Films eyes opportunities in China 42 Something smart India’s Cosmo Films is laying down this way comes roots in China as it sees opportunities Smart packaging can take many forms, for growth in the market, writes Aakriti as David Pittman finds out. Agarwal 45 Beating the counterfeiters 34 Innovations in packaging David Niven, managing director of Packaging Innovations 2014 provided Holoptica (UK), outlines the impact of a good opportunity to view some counterfeiting on businesses of all sizes interesting developments in packaging structures, design and performance 47 Deepening automation in flexo 36 Baumgarten creates Focus Label Machinery has partnered Latin America network with Bosch Rexroth to integrate Baumgarten has created a regional automation deeper into its flexo press network that allows it to serve clients in portfolio multiple Latin American markets, writes Andy Thomas James Quirk Group managing editor, Package Print Worldwide and Labels & Labeling [email protected] packprintworld.com 6 | News/Update NEWS XEIKON Xeikon is targeting big growth in digital folding carton printing as it prepares to host its next Xeikon Café event, TARGETING where members of the Aura Partner Network will be present BIG GROWTH IN CARTONS Xeikon is targeting big growth in digital folding carton printing. Xeikon has made a number of developments in its technology in relation its folding carton suite, including the launch of the Alpine Fuser drum and Duraclear, which it said has made its technology better suited to folding carton printing. It has also introduced a five-color variant of its 3000 series featuring orange and CMYK, which is being offered as a standard configuration to folding carton printers. Filip Weymans, business development manager for labels and packaging at Xeikon, said: ‘Our strategy is to pursue growth in the folding carton market. ‘At the moment, self-adhesive labels account for around 75 percent of our business, with the other quarter attributed to heat will exhibit their technologies to attendees. This is to include: transfer, in-mold label and folding carton printing. Our intention Actega, Argos Solutions, Michelman and Squid Inks from is to grow our folding carton market presence, and to make it as the consumables and tools segment; finishing specialists AB big as self-adhesive labels.’ Graphic, Bograma, KAMA and Highcon; print media companies Xeikon’s presence at shows has included a strong focus 3M, Iggesund, Stora Enso, Treofan and UPM; software suppliers on the folding carton market for some time already, including including CERM, Chili Publish, Hybrid Software and Labeltraxx; partaking in the Package Printing Workshop feature areas at as well as RotoMetrics, Meech and ThermoflexX. Labelexpo Europe 2011 and 2013, and Labelexpo Americas The Xeikon Café Packaging Innovations will have three 2012, and its folding carton suite being on show at Ipex 2014, strands, covering both the business and technical aspects of in partnership with supplier companies from its Aura Partner digital package printing, as well as the table-top exhibition. Network. This included Zünd and its S3 digital cutting machine. Partners and suppliers will give presentations regarding The Xeikon Café, taking place May 20-22 May in Antwerp, technical topics, with converters who have already adopted Belgium,